CUTTER

cutter. Cutter, n. one who cuts, a swift-sailing vessel

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Cut″ter (k?t″t?r), n. 1. 1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
2. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
3. 3. A fore tooth; an incisor. Ray.
4. 4. (Naut.) (a) A boat used by ships of war. (b) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead. (c) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; — also called revenue cutter.
5. 5. A small, light one-horse sleigh.
6. 6. An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
7. 7. A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
8. 8. A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; — so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Cutter bar. (Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached. — Cutter head (Mach.), a rotating head, which itself forms a cutter, or a rotating stock to which cutters may be attached, as in a planing or matching machine. Knight.